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HOLLYWOOD(UPI)—Loni Anderson decided last year it was time to change her career around to play moms and comedy instead of pretty young girls.

So far, most people remember her as Jennifer Marlowe, the role she played in her first film in 1982.
This summer people will see Anderson in A Night as Roxbury, a film produced and directed by Amy Heckerlin.
“In the film I have two sons. One is 26, and the other is 30. Isn’t that interesting? I know I don’t look that old, but that’s what’s so fun about it.”
“My character dresses in clothes too short, too tight. Dan Hedaya plays my husband. We’re a couple with a lot of money and no taste. Our sons are complete idiots(白癡). Their purpose in life is to get into the Rich Young Man Club where everybody is proud of his wealth.”
“As you can tell, I’m doing things I’d never have done at the beginning of my career.”
“But I am who I am. I’ve worked as an actress a long time and now I can be anything I want. It’s a great time for me. I don’t have anything to prove.”
“I hadn’t done comedy in a long time. It’s what I do best and what I like best. At this point in my life I want to look a lit­tle bit foolish. I think that would be something new for me.”

  1. 1.

    What had Loni Anderson probably played most in her past film career?

    1. A.
      Pretty young girls
    2. B.
      Old mothers
    3. C.
      Foolish persons
    4. D.
      Rich women
  2. 2.

    When did she begin to be an actress?

    1. A.
      Last year
    2. B.
      This year
    3. C.
      1972
    4. D.
      1982
  3. 3.

    What was she going to change?

    1. A.
      Her clothes
    2. B.
      Her husband
    3. C.
      Her role type
    4. D.
      Her living place
  4. 4.

    Where does this article most likely appear?

    1. A.
      Newspaper
    2. B.
      Science magazine
    3. C.
      Tourist guide book
    4. D.
      Historical record

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From now on, never spend your precious time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings. Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. Only you have the power to make those seeds grow.
The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the most awesome machine ever created: the human mind. Success is a choice and not a chance. You were born a winner. You were born rich. You can be a success if only you make the right choice.
You cannot be successful without first developing your self-confidence. Your level of self-confidence is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-confidence are people who do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their lives. They are mere victims. They are leaves tossed (搖擺) by the winds of chance blown about with any sudden change in the weather.
You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life. Failures think that everything happens by accident and chance. Successful people realize that they are responsible.
Everything happens as a result of something. If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we choose to think and believe. One generally rises to the level that one expects. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success is dependent upon our level of confidence.
If you associate with positive-thinking people, you are definitely going to achieve success. On the contrary, the opposite happens. We are responsible for finding, planting, and nurturing the seeds that contain future victory, born from setbacks.
In short, in all areas of your life, whether they be financial, physical, emotional, or spiritual, you are responsible. Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it, you are on the road to success

  1. 1.

    People with low self-confidence are compared to leaves because they____________

    1. A.
      are ready to change their minds
    2. B.
      are easily affected by windy weather
    3. C.
      don't have the power to face their fate
    4. D.
      can't control themselves in life
  2. 2.

    Losers would think that ___________

    1. A.
      success is the result of hard work
    2. B.
      working hard will lead to success
    3. C.
      their failure is only because of bad luck
    4. D.
      they don't make efforts to succeed
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from paragraph 5 that ___________

    1. A.
      whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes
    2. B.
      developing confidence is the key to future success
    3. C.
      thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind
    4. D.
      setting our expectations is essential before taking action
  4. 4.

    The last paragraph serves as ____________

    1. A.
      the proof of the author's points
    2. B.
      the conclusion of the argument
    3. C.
      an introduction to another topic
    4. D.
      a comparison between two views
  5. 5.

    Which is the best title for the text? _______________

    1. A.
      Success is a choice
    2. B.
      The secrets of success
    3. C.
      Develop our confidence
    4. D.
      How to achieve success

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NOTICE 
DO NOT FISH FOR FOOD,  FISHERMAN!
FOR YOUR OWN HEALTH              
FISH FROM THESE WATERS SHOULD NOT BE EATEN              
BECAUSE OF MERCURY (水銀)  POLLUTION     
Office of Land and Forests

  1. 1.

    Where would people see the notice?

    1. A.
      On a fish farm
    2. B.
      At a local office
    3. C.
      In a fish market
    4. D.
      On the office walls
  2. 2.

    The notice tells people___________

    1. A.
      not to fish from these waters
    2. B.
      not to put mercury into these waters
    3. C.
      not to cook the fish they catch here
    4. D.
      not to go near these waters
  3. 3.

    The notice is given because ___________

    1. A.
      the land and forest are polluted by mercury
    2. B.
      it is right to catch fish from these waters
    3. C.
      people may be ill by eating the fish they catch
    4. D.
      these waters are full of dirty things
  4. 4.

    After the fisherman read the notice, they will feel____________

    1. A.
      happy
    2. B.
      excited
    3. C.
      interested
    4. D.
      disappointed

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Exhausted and unhappy, you still have to squeeze a smile to your friends, or teachers. That’s just life, you may think. But new research suggests that putting on a fake smile can worsen people’s mood and even lower work efficiency.
Lead researcher Brent Scott with other researchers studied a group of bus drivers for two weeks. They tried to find out what happened when the drivers were involved in “surface acting” or fake smiling, and the opposite, “deep acting” which means people put on real smiles by recalling pleasant memories or thinking about their current situation more positively.
The results showed that on days when drivers were forced to smile, they felt depressed and didn’t want to work. On days when they smiled due to positive thoughts, their mood improved a lot as well as their work efficiency.
The research goes against the popular belief among companies that employees should be cheerful to customers at all times. They include employees of shops, banks, call center workers and others who have face-to-face contact with members of the public. “Smiling for the sake of(為了) smiling can lead to emotional exhaustion and coldness, and that’s bad for the organization,” Scott told the Daily Mail.
The study also showed that women were harmed more by fake smiling than men. Their mood and work performance both worsened more. But they were helped more by deep acting — their mood became better and they worked more efficiently.
However, while deep acting seemed to improve mood in the short term, Scott says it’s not a long-term solution for unhappiness.
“There have been some suggestions that if you do this over a long period that you start to feel inauthentic(不真實(shí)的),” Scott said. “You may be trying to cultivate positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel like yourself anymore.”

  1. 1.

    Brent Scott and others’ experiments on bus drivers suggest that ______

    1. A.
      depression among bus drivers is common
    2. B.
      thinking in a positive way helps with work efficiency
    3. C.
      bus drivers with pleasant memories tend to be less efficient
    4. D.
      the bus drivers’ work efficiency is determined by their mood
  2. 2.

    According to the article, which of the following statements about “fake smiling” is TRUE?

    1. A.
      It is good for the business but bad for the employees
    2. B.
      It doesn’t work on people who are emotionally expressive
    3. C.
      It is a widely accepted cultural practice in the US
    4. D.
      It causes more harm to women than men
  3. 3.

    We can conclude from the article that the researchers think that ______

    1. A.
      people should be true to their feelings
    2. B.
      smiling helps to put people in a good mood and become more efficient
    3. C.
      it is unnecessary to cultivate positive emotions
    4. D.
      deep acting can improve mood in the long run
  4. 4.

    The article is mainly about ______

    1. A.
      the importance of smiling during face-to-face contact
    2. B.
      a new study on fake smiling and its influence on people
    3. C.
      suggestions on improving work efficiency
    4. D.
      how to cheer up when you are exhausted

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Now I’d like to talk to you about your final exam. The exam will be held next Thursday, the last day of the exam week. Remember to bring two or three pens in case you run out of ink. And unlike the mid-term exam, this test will not include multiple-choice questions; it will consist entirely of essays(文章). You’ll have to answer three of the five essay questions. The exam will be comprehensive (全面的), which means you’ll be responsible for all of the subject matters we covered in class this term, I would suggest you review your mid-term exam as well as textbooks and your class notes. The final exam will count as 50 percent of your grade of the course. The research project (項(xiàng)目) will count as 20 percent and the mid-term exam 30 percent. I’ll be in my office almost all day next Tuesday. If you run into any problems, please drop in. Good luck to you and I’ll see you on Tuesday. (words: 176)

  1. 1.

    What will be included in the exam?

    1. A.
      There will be only multiple-choice questions
    2. B.
      The exam will contain both multiple-choice and essay questions
    3. C.
      The exam will have an oral and a written sections
    4. D.
      Therewill be only essay questions
  2. 2.

    Why does the teacher call the exam comprehensive?

    1. A.
      It will be easy to understand
    2. B.
      Students will be tested on all the materials discussed in class
    3. C.
      It will cover topics from a wide variety of subjects
    4. D.
      Students must complete all parts of it
  3. 3.

    The underlined phrase run into probably means_____.

    1. A.
      go into
    2. B.
      meet somebody unexpectedly
    3. C.
      come up against something with force
    4. D.
      come across
  4. 4.

    When was this talk most likely given?

    1. A.
      During the first week of class
    2. B.
      During mid-term week
    3. C.
      On the last day of class
    4. D.
      On the last day of the exam week

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Looking out of the window, my son saw a tree whose branches were strongly swaying back and forth. “How does the tree move its branches like that?” He asked.
Without rising from my chair, nor looking up from my book, I started to answer, “The tree is not moving the branches, son. The wind is…” But before the words were out, I caught myself. Instead I rose from my chair and moved to the window to join my son. I looked at the tree. From inside our room, from behind the window, I could neither feel nor hear the wind. I saw instead a tree with its branches silently moving and thought to myself, from inside this room, how could I possibly be sure that the branches were moving because of the wind rather than from the tree’s own willing?
As I stood there with my son watching the tree, I became struck by the movement of the branches, the shimmer of the leaves. My mind quieted and I became less sure myself of what was causing the branches to move. Was it the wind, or was it some expressive, independent movement of the tree? “I see what you mean,” I said to my son. “The movement of the tree is very beautiful.”
“Do you think the tree is dancing?” asked my son. “Why would it be dancing?” I asked. “Maybe it is happy because the sun is shining,” he said. “Perhaps,” I said. “Or because it’s spring,” he added, “and it’s not cold any more.” “Perhaps,” I said.
As we continued to watch the tree together, I, too, began to appreciate the dance of the tree. I enjoyed the movement and sway of the branches, seeing little nuances(微妙之處) that I hadn’t noticed before. There seemed to be a rhythm to the movement, first strong and forceful, then light and gentle, then more vigorous, sometimes nearly violent.
“Are trees alive?” my son asked. “Yes, they are alive. Why do you ask?” “Because this tree looks happy,” he answered. “Can a tree be happy or sad?” “What do you mean?” I asked.
“In the winter, trees seem sad,” he said. “Their branches hang down, and they look cold and lonely. But now with the leaves on the tree and the sun shining and the birds flying, it looks happy.”

  1. 1.

    What is the meaning of the underlined word “caught” in Para 2?

    1. A.
      stopped
    2. B.
      grasped
    3. C.
      seized
    4. D.
      held
  2. 2.

    What on earth caused the tree to move?

    1. A.
      The tree itself felt happy and was dancing
    2. B.
      The tree was too sad to sway as if to get rid of all trouble
    3. C.
      It was the warm spring
    4. D.
      The wind did so
  3. 3.

    What do you think of the boy?

    1. A.
      Naughty
    2. B.
      Imaginative
    3. C.
      Clever
    4. D.
      Foolish

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It was eleven o'clock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from his night out. He was in an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in. He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. She was overcome with sleep, and answered him with little half utterances.
  He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, showed so little interest in things which concerned him and valued so little his conversation.
  Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the candies and peanuts that he had promised the boys. Still, he loved them very much and went into the room where they slept to take a look at them and make sure that they were resting comfortably. The result of his investigation was far from satisfactory. He turned and shifted the youngsters about in bed. One of them began to kick and talk about a basket full of crabs.
  Mr. Pontellier returned to his wife with the information that Raoul had a high fever and needed looking after. Then he lit his cigar and went and sat near the open door to smoke it.
  Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul had no fever. He had gone to bed perfectly well, she said, and nothing had made him sick. Mr. Pontellier was too well familiar with fever symptoms to be mistaken. He assured her the child was burning with fever at that moment in the next room.
  He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his business. He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family on the street, and staying home to see that no harm done to them. He talked in a dull, repeated and insistent way.
  Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room. She soon came back and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning her head down on the pillow. She said nothing, and refused to answer her husband when he questioned her. When his cigar was smoked out, he went to bed, and in half a minute was fast asleep.
  Mrs. Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a little, and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her nightdress. She went out on the porch, where she sat down and began to rock herself in the chair.
  It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. There was no sound except the hooting of an old owl and the everlasting voice of the sea, which broke like a mournful lullaby (催眠曲) upon the night.
  The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve of her nightdress no longer served to dry them. She went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms.
  She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as had just happened were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against theabundance (充足) of her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be self-understood.
  An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with vague pain. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly scolding her husband, expressing sadness about Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself.
  The mosquitoes succeeded in driving away a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer.
  The following morning Mr. Pontellier was up in good time to take the carriage which was to convey him to the ship. He was returning to the city to his business, and they would not see him again at the Island till the coming Saturday. He had regained his calmness, which seemed to have been somewhatweakened the night before. He was eager to be gone, as he looked forward to a lively week in the financial center

  1. 1.

    Mr.Pontellier comes back home from his night out in a/an ______state of mind

    1. A.
      excited
    2. B.
      confused
    3. C.
      depressed
    4. D.
      disappointed
  2. 2.

    The writer would most likely describe Mr. Pontellier’s conduct during the evening as ______

    1. A.
      impatient and generous
    2. B.
      enthusiastic and responsible
    3. C.
      concerned and gentle
    4. D.
      inconsiderate and self-centered
  3. 3.

    In paragraphs 8 to 13, Mrs. Pontellier’s reactions to her husband’s behavior suggest that ______

    1. A.
      she accepts unquestioningly her role of taking care of the children
    2. B.
      this is one of the times she has acknowledged her unhappiness with her husband
    3. C.
      her relationship with her husband is not what has made her depressed
    4. D.
      she is angry about something that happened before her husband left

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I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare (兔子) and the tortoise (烏龜). At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady (鎮(zhèn)定的), and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (堅(jiān)忍不拔的), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless

  1. 1.

    The writer argued (辯論)with his son because _____.

    1. A.
      he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
    2. B.
      they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish
    3. C.
      he tried to teach his son a moral (品德) lesson but the son had totally different opinion
    4. D.
      he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t
  2. 2.

    Sonny believed that the tortoise _____.

    1. A.
      won the race by his own hard working
    2. B.
      took a risk (冒險) by agreeing to run a race
    3. C.
      was not given a fair chance in the race
    4. D.
      in fact did win the race luckily
  3. 3.

    Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_____.

    1. A.
      boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father
    2. B.
      boys who Sonny has run races with before
    3. C.
      boys who Sonny has never raced with before
    4. D.
      boys who Sonny did not expect to race with again
  4. 4.

    The writer thinks that his generation (一代人) _____.

    1. A.
      are cleverer than Sonny’s generation
    2. B.
      have the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation
    3. C.
      are more hopeful than Sonny’s generation
    4. D.
      have different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation
  5. 5.

    According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?

    1. A.
      The tortoise
    2. B.
      Sonny
    3. C.
      The hare
    4. D.
      Sonny’s father

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To many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a men cast away on an island of solid rock,totally out of touch and destined to starve to death. So important is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier, it constructs a wider-meshed (網(wǎng)孔、網(wǎng)眼)web using fewer strands(線). Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider. The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactivity, labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down. Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate(無脊推動物). If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will finish building the incomplete web of another

  1. 1.

    Which of the following best expresses the main ideas of the passage?

    1. A.
      Secrets of Spiders' Adaptability
    2. B.
      Importance of Webs to Spiders
    3. C.
      Secrets of the Spiders' Life
    4. D.
      Spiders' Highly Preprogrammed Brain
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

    1. A.
      Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry
    2. B.
      One Web-building spider usually conducts one web
    3. C.
      Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs
    4. D.
      Web-building spiders have good eyesight
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “scrawnier” in the second paragraph probably means_____.

    1. A.
      weaker but good-looking
    2. B.
      fatter and stronger
    3. C.
      nice and healthier
    4. D.
      thinner and bony
  4. 4.

    A spider's ability to finish an incomplete web proves that_____.

    1. A.
      it has a highly preprogrammed brain
    2. B.
      it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silk
    3. C.
      the web is everything for a spider
    4. D.
      it is able to rebuild a destroyed web

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A few years ago I was on a bicycle trip when I got off my bike for a rest. I sat down on the grass. A few seconds later, I was covered in ants. They were swarming all over me so I got up and brushed them off. It was a strange experience but I soon forgot about it.
A couple of years later, I was living in Jordan. I had just moved into a modern flat and was unpacking plates when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I looked over at the kitchen drawer and there was a cockroach(蟑螂)crawling out of it. I screamed. Then I grabbed a can of insecticide and sprayed it on the cockroach. He ran under the nearby bathroom door. It took me three days before I found the courage to open the bathroom door to see if he was still alive. He wasn’t.
Why did I react so violently to one lone insect when a closer encounter with hundreds of ants hardly affected me? The answer is easy: because cockroaches are creepy(令人毛骨悚然的) crawlies and ants aren’t. Creepy crawlies are those little bugs which cause feelings such as anxiety - they make your skin crawl.
Did you know that some people feel such a fear of bugs that it becomes a phobia(恐懼癥)? Psychologists have offered many explanations. Some say we associate them with dirt and disease. Or that these are life forms that are so alien to us, that we find them disgusting for their dissimilarity.
Insects, however, don’t follow our rules - they just do what they want and invade our space. Unfortunately, although insects and bugs have been a successful animal species up to now, many of them, like many other species nowadays, are under threat of dying out. Entomologistswarn that this could upset entire ecosystems and lead to all kinds of disastrous consequences.
So my advice to you is: the next time you feel the urge to stamp on, splatter or spray a creepy crawly, give a thought to the planet and stop

  1. 1.

    Why did the author mention the ants in the beginning?

    1. A.
      Because the experience with the ants presents a sharp contrast to that with the cockroach later
    2. B.
      Because the author wants to show her preference to the ants and her dislike for the cockroaches
    3. C.
      Because both ants and cockroaches are creepy crawlies that the author dislikes
    4. D.
      Because meeting the ants is an unusual experience that the author can hardly forget
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “insecticide” in Paragraph 2 probably means_____.

    1. A.
      a kind of fruit juice
    2. B.
      a kitchen knife
    3. C.
      liquid for killing insects
    4. D.
      cleanser (洗滌劑)for the bathroom
  3. 3.

    How does the author feel about bugs like cockroaches?

    1. A.
      The author doesn’t mind the contact with those harmless small creatures
    2. B.
      The author prefers cockroaches to ants and feels guilty for killing one
    3. C.
      They invade our space and become a threat to humans
    4. D.
      They still deserve a place for keeping the balance of the nature
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statements about bugs is NOT true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Some people may be frightened so much by bugs that it leads to a psychological barrier to some degree
    2. B.
      The earth will have a better and cleaner environment if more creepy crawlies are killed
    3. C.
      Many bugs are in danger of dying out so we should not kill them due to fear or disgust
    4. D.
      Some bugs are extremely unpleasant that some people have a strong wish to destroy them

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